Ornamental seam for sewed articles.



PATENTED FEB. 7, 1905.

R. LOEB.

ORNAMENTAL SBAM FOR SEWED ARTICLES.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 29, 1904.

UNTTED STATES Patented February '7. 1905.

RUDOLF LOEB, OF CAMDEN, NE\V JERSEY.

ORNAMENTAL SEAIVI FOR SEWED ARTICLES.

SPECIFIC ATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 782,208, dated February '7, 1905.

Original application filed December 9, 1903, Serial No. 184,465. Divided and this application filed February 29, 1904. Serial No. 195,884.

To n71 'II'7l-0 77I/ it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUpoLF Lone, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Camden, New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Ornamental Seams for Sewed Articles, (being a division of my application for patent filed December 9, 1903, Serial No. 184,-i65,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to embroidered fabrics having designs produced upon the same by embroidering-niachines;and it consists of a special form of fabric in which parallel rows of stitches suitably spaced apart are formed upon plain woven material of a suitable char acter, such stitches being connected bycrossthreads. the crossing portions of the thread inclosing a stuffing medium formed of one or more threads which extend for the fulllength of the embroidered design. In this embroidered fabric the stitches will be arranged in parallel rows and may be single or double. The character of the embroidery may be enhanced by rows of stitching bordering the stuffing medium which is bound by the crossstitches. The stitches which I form are what are familiarly known as chain-stitches, and said stitches and the crossing portions of the thread are continuous-that is to say. formed of a continuous thread. The general manner of making these stitches is fully described and claimed in my pending application above referred to, of which this is a division and to which reference is made. Some of the stitches shown herewith have parallel connecting or crossing threads. while others are of the same character as the stitches shown in my prior application.

My invention is fully shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of oneface of apiece of embroidered fabric embodying my invention shown on an enlarged scale. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the reverse face of the fabric shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a series of one form of stitches and their connected crossing threads made on an enlarged scale. Fig. 4 is a similar perspective view of a series of another form of stitches i duced like that shown in Fig.

and their connected crossing threads. Fig. 5 s a sectional view on the line a a, Fig. 1; and Figs. 6, 7, and S are views illustrating the application of the modified stitch and the con nected crossing threads shown in Fig. I, such views being of the same character as Figs. 1, 2, and 5, Fig. 8 being a section on the line Z) I), Fig. 6.

In the form of embroidered fabric shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 single parallel rows of stitches (indicated at l 1) are formed. Between these rows of stitches the thread which forms the same is carried back rad forth under the fabric in single parallel rows, as shown at 2 and clearly illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, a single continuous thread forming said stitches and the crossing portions between the same. If desired. double rows of stitches may be formed adjacent to each other. In both instances the crossing threads 2 will inclose and bind a stutting medium 3, which may be made of one or more threads, may be f any thickness desired, and which will raise the surface of the fabric and give the embroidery icorded appearance. as clearly indicated in Fig. 1. To enhance the effect of this, the reverse side of the embroidered fabric (shown at Fig. 2) may have a single or double row of stitches i arranged alongside the bound-in stufling medium.

In Fig. 6 I have shown a form of the 0rna.

mcntation made by single rows 1 of chainstitches having crossing threads 2 between the same in which the stuffing medium 3 is laid under the fabric and inclosed by said crossing-thrciuls 2 between the rows of stitches in the manner shown in Fig. 7. This fabric may be then turned on its opposite face, and by running single rows of chain-stitches 4" along the border of the same an effect is pro- 7. The opposite side of the fabric, as shown in Fig. 6, will simulate tapework the same as Fig. 1 by the effect of the raised portion caused by the stuffing medium, such simulated tape having the row of stitches 1 on each side, which are continuous with the crossing threads 2. In Fig.

8 l have shown a cross-section of the fabric shown in Figs. 6 and l, taken on the line I) Z),

Fig. 6. The crossing threads 2 make a closer covering for the stulfing medium and enhance the appearance of the fabric.

The forms of embroidery according to'my and disposed on the other face of the fabric, said stitches and crossing portions being formed of a single continuous thread, and a stufling medium confined by the crossing portions of the thread, said stufling medium raising the surface of the fabric. I

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of tWo subscribing Witnesses.

RUDOLF LOEB.

Witnesses:

AUGUST SEEMAN, J AS. W. REANEY. 

